Empowering Co-Creation in Urban Living Labs: The SCORE Co-Creation Toolkit

In urban innovation, co-creation plays a crucial role in fostering inclusive, sustainable, and impactful solutions. Whether tackling climate challenges, improving public services, or designing citizen-driven initiatives, involving diverse stakeholders from the outset leads to more resilient outcomes. The SCORE Co-Creation Toolkit is a valuable resource designed to support this process, offering practical methods to engage communities, policymakers, and experts in meaningful collaboration.

What is the SCORE Co-Creation Toolkit?

Developed by the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies (IHS), with contributions from ENoLL, this toolkit provides a structured yet flexible set of tools that guide users through the different phases of co-creation. It is designed for Living Labs, local authorities, researchers, facilitators, and anyone working on participatory urban development. By using interactive and hands-on approaches, the toolkit enables stakeholders to collectively define challenges, generate ideas, test solutions, and evaluate impact.

How can it benefit the Living Lab Community?

For Living Labs, co-creation is at the heart of their approach, bringing together citizens, businesses, academia, and governments to experiment with innovative solutions in real-world settings. The SCORE toolkit aligns perfectly with this mission, providing methods that:

• Help structure participatory processes in urban and environmental projects.

• Support facilitators in designing workshops and engagement activities.

• Offer adaptable tools that fit various scales, from small local interventions to city-wide strategies.

• Ensure diverse voices are heard, making innovation more inclusive and needs-driven.

What’s Inside the Toolkit?

The SCORE Co-Creation Toolkit is organised into five key themes, covering the entire lifecycle of a co-creation process:

1. Need Identification & Analysis: Tools for understanding stakeholders’ needs, challenges, and opportunities.

2. Ideation & Visioning: Methods to generate creative ideas and shape shared visions.

3. Strategy Development: Frameworks for planning concrete actions and long-term strategies.

4. Prototyping & Testing: Approaches to experiment with solutions in real-life contexts.

5. Feedback & Evaluation: Techniques to gather input, refine outcomes, and assess impact.

Each tool is adaptable based on the audience, level of facilitation, time availability, and project scale, making it easy to integrate into different co-creation settings.

Explore the SCORE Co-creation toolkit & Apply it to your work

This toolkit offers ready-to-use resources to enhance stakeholder engagement and participatory governance. Whether you are working on climate adaptation, urban mobility, or social innovation, the methods provided can support your co-creation activities in practical and effective ways.

Explore the toolkit and start applying it to your projects today!